The Petrachelys floated quietly in space. A few kilometers below the spacecraft was the giant shimmering shield of the Naqdal Continent. The fortress, which was based on the entire space continent, was leaving the inspection array. The land of temples, cannons, factories, and drone storage was moving slowly under the spacecraft. The real-time images sent back by the external monitors looked like a moving steel jungle.
"It's an incredible miracle …" Y 'zaks exclaimed. While the old demon no longer led troops to war, he still had high praise for this weapon of war. "Back in my hometown, this thing was big enough to be a place of life and support several kingdoms. But here, it's a moving weapon, and it carries the power of destruction …"
"Isn't Agodal bigger?" Lily lay on her seat, wagging her tail while watching the holographic image. "And the planetary fortress is still intact. It's much better than our planet, which is only one-third the size of a planet."
"A sense of accomplishment. Do you know what a sense of accomplishment is?" Hao Ren rolled his eyes at the husky. "I built Naqdal myself with the drone cluster, and Agodal was built by the giants. How can it be the same?"
Lily thought for a moment and said, "I don't think so. You see, I don't usually cook, but I'm quite satisfied with the bat's ribs. Right, Battie? "
Vivian crossed her arms and said, "I told you, you can't talk to this dumbass."
"The guardian giants have begun to mobilize their legions. According to the plan, Agodal will stay near the heart to guard the base. Our Naqdal will be the only large fortress in this operation." Nolan appeared on the bridge with various reports and images from the guardian army floating beside her. "The new structures at the southern end of the continent are in good condition. The structural force field stabilizer and inertia suppressor are working well. This is the first time we have used this warship equipment on a pile of stones and buildings. It seems to work well. After all, the principle is universal."
Hao Ren nodded and looked at the lights that were gradually lighting up on the Naqdal Continent. "We will only know if it works well in actual combat."
The massive space continent began to accelerate slowly under the push of numerous giant engines. Its inverted conical base was once full of cracks and fiery pipes and mechanical structures. But these things had been repaired by the engineering drones. All the exposed mechanical structures were sealed, and the cracks were replaced by shiny silver-white armor belts. The giant connecting bridge and the end of the continental skeleton were equipped with massive engine arrays, ground-attack weapon modules, and countless drone facilities. Coupled with the drone factories and secondary psionic cannons on the edge of the surface, these new facilities had made the entire Naqdal fortress twice as big as before.
In fact, it was a little too big. In the southern part of the continent, a large piece of land was connected to an island modified from an asteroid by a large number of metal skeletons and bridge structures. The island was like a satellite of the main continent, nestled next to Naqdal. It was full of huge cannons and energy arrays, looking like a crazy additional weapon pod.
It was a weapon pod of a planetary scale.
Around Naqdal was a tidal wave of drones. The drones surrounded and supported Naqdal in a nearly spherical formation as if they had 'filled in' the debris of the planet. It was breathtaking from space.
Further away, the guardian legion was moving out. Salaman led the Aiur. Thousands of black mothership-class warships and tens of thousands of escort ships were neatly arranged as they left Agodal's gravitational berth. After leaving the berth, they spread out in a seemingly messy and extremely loose formation in preparation for warp jump.
Unlike the drone swarm, the guardian battleships could not rely on each other to build a joint protective force field. So they would deliberately make the formation loose and disorderly during space combat to improve the survivability of the army. This was also the common fighting style of the space civilizations that did not have the joint shield technology. Of course, those who did not have the joint shield technology, did not have the absolute numbers, and did not have the overwhelming power but were still keen on box A.
Salaman's image appeared on the holographic projection of the communicator. The old giant nodded in the direction of Vivian. "Lord of the Throne, the guardian legion has entered combat mode and is at your command."
"I have told you many times, just call me by my name." Vivian sighed, feeling a headache coming on. "Sigh, forget it. Call me whatever you like. Like I said before, I don't know how to command an army, so the actual battle will still be handled by you and your staff. Your main task is to attack together with the droid army and build fortifications outside of Amantir's destruction zone. Once you receive our message, just be ready. "
Salaman nodded slightly, but hesitantly said, "We can take on more —"
"Your mission is simple, but it is significant," Vivian interrupted. "This operation is not to defeat the enemy on the battlefield. This is a special operation, understand?"
The giant commander bowed his head. "Yes, as you command."
Ending the communication, Hao Ren saw a series of flashes coming from the direction of the guardian legion, which was a sign that the fleet had entered the warp jump. He turned to Nolan and nodded. "Land on the southern island of Naqdal. Let's go."
A moment later, the Naqdal fortress and the entire drone swarm entered a sparkling dimensional distortion field and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
When the various disturbances and oscillations caused by the teleportation finally subsided, the legion had reached a new territory.
This was the airspace dominated by the festered legion and the Amantir war fortress.
"The warp space is open. The optical path is clear. The external image has been restored. Transferring."
As soon as her voice trailed off, the image captured by the external monitor was transmitted to the bridge. The first thing that Hao Ren saw was the strange purplish-red color that was everywhere in the entire space.
The power of the Mad Lord had completely infected and corrupted the once sacred planetary fortress of Amantir, and turned the powerful energy furnace in the fortress into a hotbed for its own growth. The chaotic evil energy that spewed out from the energy furnace spread into space, distorting the stars in the distance into a grotesque and hideous appearance. A purplish-red light filled the space, and this light contained the power to make mortal species fall into madness.
And in the center of this purplish-red ominous place was the planetary fortress of Amantir, which was blood-red in the darkness.
The corrupted planetary fortress floated quietly in the center of the window. Cracked lava vents and erupting volcanoes were all over the fortress. Toxic water surged in the remaining rivers and oceans on the fortress, producing poisonous steam that covered the entire planet in circles of strange colors. At the planet's equator, the huge scar called the Vicious Breach was still rolling with red light, and the disturbed festered were swarming out of the breach like a swarm of insects.
But what reacted faster than the festered were the various railguns and defense platforms on Amantir's orbit, as well as the festered legion stationed in space.
"The enemy has begun to attack. The Guardian Legion is in direct contact with the enemy."
"The drone swarm has deployed. Combat Sequence 1 to 233 are in position to engage the enemy. Entering firefight."
"The Naqdal fortress has begun to move."
"Drone swarm, Combat Sequence 234 to 368, flank the enemy!"
There was no time to organize the formation, slowly set up positions, observe the enemy, and formulate a strategy. The festered's counterattack was swift and ruthless. The drone swarm and the Guardian Legion had also arrived on the battlefield and engaged the enemy in a fierce exchange of fire.
Battle reports were sent to the bridge almost instantaneously, and then automatically processed by Nolan's battlefield module and the MDT's battlefield processing program into complex instructions that were almost incomprehensible to humans and sent to the cluster consciousness of the drone swarm. The cluster consciousness then further refined these instructions into an unimaginably huge data stream and sent it to every armed drone on the battlefield.
The whole process was almost instantaneous.
It was a battlefield execution process with terrifying efficiency. In short, Hao Ren had sent a wave of 30 million soldiers over, and then each of the 30 million soldiers actually had their own 800 APM operation. On the surface, it looked like Hao Ren had sent a F2A, but in fact …
Well, in fact, Hao Ren had indeed sent a F2A, but the drone swarm was awesome. Don't die if you are not convinced.
The disturbed festered army was like a mass of sludge floating in space, surging and twisting violently before splitting into countless black tides that pounced on the invading enemy. The guardian army led by Salaman fearlessly launched long-range bombardment. As the "new guests" in this ancient galaxy, the droid swarm once again showed their way to the enemy on the battlefield.
They swarmed in, crazy and ruthless. But at the same time, they were orderly, accurate, efficient, calm, and rational. Each drone was the most precise part of the swarm, and the "drone tide" they formed was a huge, ruthless meat grinder.
But this time, the number of drones did not seem to be as large as the last time.
Just like how the combat units lost in the last battle had not been replenished yet, the number of drones in front of the festered this time was significantly thinner than before, so the situation of being overwhelmed and almost crushed did not happen this time.
The festered army and the drone swarm fought back and forth.
While the drone swarm and the Amantir garrison were in full swing, Salaman's figure once again appeared on the holographic projection in front of Hao Ren.
"Our remote sensing radar has found the energy signature of the Amantir crystal near the rift."
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